We also recognize the support of the University of Toronto and the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy as the Ontario 360 project’s intellectual and administrative home. [...] The intensification of globalization led Any set of public policies, no matter how to manufacturing in Ontario undergoing broad-based, will benefit some industries significant restructuring, favouring the more than others, and there is a real production of durable goods and the risk that a one-size-fits-all approach will offshoring of manufacturing of non- concentrate the economic gains with durab. [...] Over the past five years, years: The recession of the 1990s, free manufacturing employment in Ontario has trade agreements with the United States, represented roughly 11% of total provincial the “China Shock’’ caused by increased employment, and almost half of the competition from Chinese manufacturers, manufacturing jobs in the country.11 These currency and exchange rate volatility jobs are gener. [...] Figure 3: The continuum of strategies to revitalize Ontario’s comparative advantage in manufacturing Interventionist Partnership Neoliberal Strategy Strategy Strategy The state takes the Partnership between Free markets provide all leading role in the design private and public sector the necessary ingredients and implementation of actors to design and to revitalize manufacturing; targeted policies. [...] women’s participation in manufacturing has remained stagnant since the mid-1980s, To diversify the workforce, the focus should and with a high likelihood of decline in the be on addressing the structural barriers that years to come, partly due to compositional marginalize women and visible minorities.
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